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Hashlock Markets bridges autonomous economy gap with trustless OTC settlement

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The autonomous economy is rapidly developing infrastructure standards, with four emerging protocols for agent identity, commerce, and payments. These standards, including ERC-8004, ERC-8183, OKX Agent Payments Protocol, and Coinbase's x402, address various aspects of agent interaction but leave a critical gap in trustless cross-chain asset settlement. Hashlock Markets aims to fill this void with a protocol offering sealed-bid RFQ for price discovery and HTLC atomic settlement, enabling secure, custodian-free trades between AI agents and humans across different blockchains. AI

IMPACT The development of these standards and settlement layers is crucial for enabling complex AI agent interactions and the growth of the autonomous economy.

RANK_REASON Significant funding and the emergence of multiple competing infrastructure standards for autonomous agents indicate a major industry development. [lever_c_demoted from significant: ic=1 ai=0.7]

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Hashlock Markets bridges autonomous economy gap with trustless OTC settlement

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Baris Sozen ·

    The autonomous economy has four standards — and a missing layer

    <p>In the first five months of 2026, the autonomous economy went from "interesting idea" to "four competing infrastructure standards." Let's map them and find the gap.</p> <h2> A funding week, by the numbers </h2> <p>Three announcements within the last few weeks tell you where th…

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